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Ox Carts with Furs
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A view showing a line of ox carts loaded with furs leaving the Hudson Bay Company's Post to make the 16 mile trip to avoid the rapids on Slave River. Housing is in the background. Caption reads: "Fort Smith, H.B. Co's. Post, showing the ox carts loaded with fur, making the 16 mile portage to avoid the rapids on Slave River. 700 miles North of Edmonton." and "Photo by C.W. Mathers, Edmonton."
Mathers, C. W.
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